Barack Obama: so much for superhero (8)
What a difference a year makes. On a balmy Tuesday evening in November just under a dozen long months ago, Barack Hussein Obama’s unlikely journey to the presidency reached its heady conclusion. Americans had shown, he proclaimed, that they could “put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day”.
The then Illinois senator told the enraptured crowd, and a world that watched in awe at what the United States had achieved, that “all things are possible”, that “our union can be perfected” and it was time for the “partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long to be cast aside”.
This Tuesday, Democrats face almost certain defeat in the governor’s race in Virginia – the key Southern state that helped deliver Mr Obama victory – and a desperately close call in New Jersey, where the Democratic governor is in deep trouble in what should be a safe seat.
Although the White House was buoyed by the release of gross domestic product figures yesterday showing that the US had climbed out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, little else is going right for Mr Obama.
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Mac Says:
Perhaps the most dangerous sign for Mr Obama is that the media – whose adoring coverage helped propel him to victory – are growing tired of the Obama Superhero theme. It has been pointedly noted this week that he has played as much golf already as Mr Bush did in his eight years in the White House.
I wonder how long before Michael Moore lampoons Obama in a future mockumentary. I suggest as a title “What? Me change??”
Details have emerged of big Democratic donors being richly rewarded with birthday trips to the Oval Office, golf outings and special White House briefings. These are long-established practices in Washington but Mr Obama solemnly promised to end them.
Well, if he promised, it’s all better, right? Funny that he didn’t apologize as well…
Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Soccermom Says:
Sting says O was sent by God. Hmmm, now which ‘god’ would that be? Allah?
Certainly not my Judao-Christian God.
Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 11:43 am
philanthropist Says:
Super-Zero. Obama has not accomplished anything except get elected, and He had a lot of help with that.
Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 12:57 pm